Definition of Blaze

3. Noun. A high-visibility orange colour with a Hex value of FF6600 and RGB of 255,102,0, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing a lot of flames and light. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To shine like a flame. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To make a thing shine like a flame. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To mark or cut (a route, especially through vegetation), or figuratively, to set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge. ¹

8. Verb. (slang) To smoke marijuana. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blaze

1. to burn brightly [v BLAZED, BLAZING, BLAZES]

Medical Definition of Blaze

1.
1. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. "To heaven the blaze uprolled."
2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun. "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon!" (Milton)
3. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." "For what is glory but the blaze of fame?" (Milton)
4. [Cf. D.; akin to E. Light] A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. "Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road." (Carlton) In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. "The horses did along like blazes tear."
In low language in the U. S, blazes is frequently used of something extreme or excessive, especially of something very bad; as, blue as blazes.
Synonym: Blaze, Flame.
A blaze and a flame are both produced by burning gas. In blaze the idea of light rapidly evolved is prominent, with or without heat; as, the blaze of the sun or of a meteor. Flame includes a stronger notion of heat; as, he perished in the flames.
Origin: OE. Blase, AS. Blaese, blase; akin to OHG. Blass whitish, G. Blass pale, MHG. Blas torch, Icel. Blys torch; perh. Fr. The same root as E. Blast. Cf. Blast, Blush, Blink.
1. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark. "I found my way by the blazed trees." (Hoffman)
2. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path. "Champollion died in 1832, having done little more than blaze out the road to be traveled by others." (Nott)
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Blaze

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1902)"On uninjured beans the blaze current is in the same direction as the exciting
... On an uninjured bean the after-effect or blaze is invariably in the same ..."

2.An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)"1841 I desire to new blaze the landmarks which do now, and ever have divided ...
blaze. A continual firing. 1777 [They] kept up such a blaze upon the enemy, ..."

3.The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)"... in the blaze, Widespreading, houses perish ; and the force Of a strong wind
makes terrible its roar; So rose the din, unceasing as they went, ..."

5.The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)"Bede's last blaze, and the Going-out of the Candle of his Life. AD734. One of
the last things he did was the translating of the Gospel of St. John into ..."

6.The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1902)"On uninjured beans the blaze current is in the same direction as the exciting
... On an uninjured bean the after-effect or blaze is invariably in the same ..."

7.An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)"1841 I desire to new blaze the landmarks which do now, and ever have divided ...
blaze. A continual firing. 1777 [They] kept up such a blaze upon the enemy, ..."

8.The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)"... in the blaze, Widespreading, houses perish ; and the force Of a strong wind
makes terrible its roar; So rose the din, unceasing as they went, ..."

10.The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)"Bede's last blaze, and the Going-out of the Candle of his Life. AD734. One of
the last things he did was the translating of the Gospel of St. John into ..."